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Cultural Criticism and Analysis March 23, 2015
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Internet and New Media December 4, 2013
The Promise—and Threat—of the Internet
Who will rule our virtual world—government data miners and the corporations in step with them, or everyone else?
E.L. Doctorow
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Culture February 7, 2012
Reading John Leonard: A Tribute
For the critic John Leonard, “books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves.”
E.L. Doctorow
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Cultural Criticism and Analysis August 12, 2010
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Philosophy June 26, 2008
George W. Bush and the Politics of Knowledge Denial
Just as Moby-Dick was too much for Ahab, our new century may be too difficult for us to comprehend.
E.L. Doctorow
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Religion May 8, 2003
Why We Are Infidels
Fundamentalists are offended when there is no officially sanctioned path to salvation.
E.L. Doctorow
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Autobiography and Memoir May 1, 2003
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Campaign Finance July 27, 2000
In the Eighth Circle of Thieves
The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.
E.L. Doctorow
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Accidents and Disasters August 14, 1995
Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
E.L. Doctorow
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Political Figures July 19, 1980